Composed in the year 800 for a person named
Meḥmed b. Ḥacı Baḫşı el-Kütahyevī,
this work is an Arabic to Turkish verse dictionary in one volume in which the explanations are made in Persian.
A verse dictionary in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish completed in 827 in
Ayaslug near Izmir.
Maʿlḳaravī wrote the work for his two sons
Meḥmed and Aḥmed to learn Arabic and Persian by way of memorization. The work consists of 436 couplets. It begins with
an introduction in Arabic which also includes some Turkish verses. The majority of the work contains dictionary
items which are Arabic to Turkish.